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A museum dedicated to posters is opening in New York AND it’s going to be housed in the old Tekserve store—both these things makes me so happy! I find poster design somewhat daunting—it can be anything, I like more boundaries—so I’m always impressed when I come across great posters. In general, they remind me of being back at Pratt, where our professors would show us all these inspiring examples….

Okay so back to Poster House—I’m giddily checking out their website, super excited for a new design museum to be opening in NYC and thinking it’s so cool that they will be in an iconic location. The logo is designed by Paula Scher and then I read the letter from their president, Val Crosswhite, and it ends with her unknowing shout out to Mother:

…I walk past a barbershop in Port Authority that has a dozen posters in their window of different hair models. All have the strangely evocative words ‘Love, Mother’ in the corner, which I assume is the name of the company that produces them. The models are diverse in race, age, and hairstyle, but all of them are so vividly expressive, such clear characters as if ripped from the pages of an epic novel—so much of themselves is written on their faces. These posters have never induced me to get a haircut at this shop and they never will, but I look forward to seeing them every day. They make my day better.

I’m so excited! While I wait for their first pop up exhibition to open in September, I’ll be perusing the moving poster site for something a little similar and a little bit different.